Bear Lake Gold Ltd. announces that the Company has changed its financial year-end to September 30, from its prior year-end of December 31. The Company made this change to align its year-end with that of its wholly-owned subsidiary Maximus Ventures Ltd., which it acquired through a business combination by way of statutory plan of arrangement [...]
The Australian reported that BHP Billiton is in talks to take up a 25% stake in a A$615million (US$733million) bauxite mine and alumina refinery in India`s eastern Orissa province. The deal would be BHP Billiton`s first project in India.
It also reported that Zinifex Ltd and its Belgian partner Umicore Group are believed to have appointed [...]
Asian Mineral Resources Ltd. received Vietnamese government approval for its reserve estimates at a property that may become the site of the first nickel mine in the Southeast Asian nation.
The Ban Phuc property in the northern Vietnamese province of Son La holds proved and probable contained nickel resources of 24,240 tons at a grade of [...]
TerraX Minerals Inc. has entered into an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Sunbeam-Pettigrew gold property in northwest Ontario. The property consists of 27 claims totalling 350 claim units (~55 km(2)) located 25 km northeast of the town of Atikokan, 180 km west of Thunder Bay and 15 km from Brett Resources’ Hammond [...]
Sun Cal Energy Inc., an energy exploration company focused in the Southern San Joaquin Valley of California, the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma, the Breton Sound of Louisiana and the Green River Basin of Wyoming, is pleased to announce that the first of several wells to be drilled in the multi-pay prospect in the West Gomez [...]
MATECH Corp. announced that it has completed an inspection on one Union Pacific Railroad (UP) Bridge in Nebraska using its Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor (EFS) System. The EFS technology provides information about growing cracks in structural members in a single inspection. It can also be used to verify retrofit effectiveness at the time of retrofit, without [...]
Raser Technologies, Inc. announced that an independent geological study has identified three target drilling areas located on portions of Raser’s leased properties in Southern Utah. The geologists judge the sites to be suitable for developing geothermal power plants for the production of clean, renewable electric power.
The identified sites are believed by the geologists [...]
Genera-08, the International Energy and Environment Fair, will provide the framework for the staging of two business meetings among international companies on 27th and 28th February. One of these meetings forms part of an AL-Invest Programme run by the European Union, whilst the other is a ´Brokerage Event´ that will focus on the transfer of [...]
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne received his first look Wednesday at BP Alaska’s pipeline corrosion that shut down some North Slope oil production, but said the problems should not prevent new drilling in some environmentally sensitive areas.
Kempthorne, on a three-day visit to Alaska’s oil fields, toured an oil processing facility operated by ConocoPhillips 60 miles west [...]
Temex Resources Corp. and partner Nuinsco Resources Limited announce results from the fall surface exploration program conducted on the Marijane Lake and Huston Lake Uranium Properties (the “Claims”) and that drill testing of select anomalies is underway.
Commented Ian Campbell, President and CEO, “We are very encouraged by the results of the fall program conducted to [...]